Christmas is just around the corner and I think it’s going to help me become lucid a lot more often. I’ll be stuffed with food which means I’ll spend 16 hours each day in my bed. I can’t wait even if it means putting on a few extra dozen pounds.

Before Santa Claus comes I thought it would be cool to take a look at some of the things I’ve messed up this year and what I plan to start doing differently. My lucid ability has progressed nicely and I’m happy with what I’ve achieved this year, but there are still some areas I need to work on.

A few years ago I didn’t even know how to write. Seriously. My words could bring a tear to your eyes, but only because they’d be hurting so much. I forgot everything after school because I stopped writing. I still can’t write with a pen unless it’s in slow motion.

I used to think people didn’t actually want to become lucid. It was almost as if they were just in love with the idea. How else can you explain why someone is still failing or making little progress year after year?

When I hear people talking about how they’ve been trying for years and they’ve only become lucid a handful of times it makes me feel like banging my head through my thin cardboard wall. Within a few years you should be becoming lucid on a regular basis, but instead all I see is people complaining.

Maybe you do want to become a lucid dreamer, but you just don’t have the right mindset. Maybe you should stop referring to yourself as a beginner because from where I’m standing it’s the reason you’re still failing after all this time. [Read more…]